CEF 2026 Pre-conference  Opening remarks · Sun 28 June 2026 · Venice
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The Tower of Babel

Tower of Babel artwork

Economics has built dozens of powerful computational toolkits — but they cannot talk to each other, and AI can finally give them a shared language.

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This afternoon

The program — three sessions

  1. How AI Can Solve the Tower of Babel Problem (now) — the opportunity, and why now is the moment.
  2. Lessons from DYNARE — Sébastien Villemot on what the field’s most successful toolkit teaches us.
  3. Lightning survey & discussion — each of you, about five minutes: from your toolkit’s vantage point, or on what a standards effort would need to succeed; then open floor.
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What comes next

Working groups — we hope you’ll join one

  • WG1 — Language, Calculus & Formal Semantics: the shared modeling language and its formal core.Chair: Akshay Shanker
  • WG2 — Methods, Backends & Verification: interchangeable solution methods and “Rosetta Stones” between existing solvers.Chair: Herbert Dawid
  • WG3 — AI Assistance, Reproducibility & Standards: AI-assisted authoring and translation, robustness, and governance.Chair: Alan Lujan
We hope every invited participant will join at least one group — and audience members are warmly welcome too. Sign up at a kiosk, or scan to join from your phone:
WG1 sign-up QR
WG1
WG2 sign-up QR
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WG3 sign-up QR
WG3